Tokyo Zangyo (Detective Hiroshi Series Book 4)

A top manager at Japan's premier media company lands dead on the pavement in front of company headquarters, and Detective Hiroshi Shimizu walks into the high-pressure world of Tokyo's corporate giants. The manager fell from the roof at the exact spot where an employee took his own life three years earlier.

Guilt-ridden suicide, careless accident, or a personnel decision carried out on a rooftop? The one certainty is zangyo, the unpaid overtime that keeps Japanese workplaces running and drives employees to quit or to kill. With his mentor Takamatsu, Hiroshi picks through off-record spending, lavish entertaining and the unspoken agreements that hold Japan Inc. together.

Fourth in the Detective Hiroshi series. Winner of the Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY) for Best Mystery and Thriller Ebook, 2022.